Neural

BACKGROUND: Symptom-checkers have become important tools for self-triage, assisting patients to determine the urgency of medical care. To be safe and effective, these tools must be validated, particularly to avoid potential hazardous undertriage without leading to inefficient overtriage. Only limited safety data from studies including small sample sizes have been available so far. OBJECTIVE: The objective of our study was to prospectively investigate the safety of patients' self-triage in a large patient sample...

PURPOSE: To develop convolutional neural network (CNN)-based models for predicting the axial length (AL) using color fundus photography (CFP) and explore associated clinical and structural characteristics. METHODS: This study enrolled 1105 fundus images from 467 participants with ALs ranging from 19.91 to 32.59 mm, obtained at National Taiwan University Hospital between 2020 and 2021. The AL measurements obtained from a scanning laser interferometer served as the gold standard...

PURPOSE: Unilateral strength training may attenuate the decline in muscle strength and size in homologous, contralateral muscles. This study aimed to determine whether the cross-education of strength could specifically attenuate the effects of detraining immediately after a short (prehabilitation-type) period of strength training. METHODS: Twenty-six strength-trained participants were assigned to either four weeks of unilateral strength training of the stronger arm (UNI) or detraining (Detrain)...

Artificial neural networks offer a viable route in assessing and understanding the presence and concentration of heavy metals that can cause dangerous complications in the wider context of water quality prediction for the sustainability of the ecosystem. In order to estimate the heavy metal concentrations in Iznik Lake, which is an important water source for the surrounding communities, characterization data were taken from five different water sources flowing into the lake between 2015 and 2021. These characterization results were evaluated with IBM SPSS Statistics 23 software, with the addition of the lake water quality system...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: To explore a view of the human microbiome as an interconnected, functional, dynamic system that may be linked to the pathogenesis and progression of glaucoma. METHOD: A literature review was undertaken that included publications from 1966 to 2023. RESULTS: Bacterial lipopolysaccharides (LPS) activate toll-like receptors (TLR) and mediate the human immune response. The LPS-TLR4 pathway is a potential avenue for the ocular, gut, and oral microbiomes to interface and/or influence ocular disease...

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